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Wal-Mart
The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A collection of essays that “do an incredible job of balancing the wonders and horrors of the force that is Wal-Mart**” (Booklist, starred review).**
Edited by one of the nation’s preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart’s...
by Christopher Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
This book is a no BS guide to flipping your way to financial freedom. No house flipping, No Wholesaling, No drop shipping. This is a REAL business.
From cars to generators this book tells you how to create a cash business that will generate between $2000 and $5,000 a week part time. It covers...
John A. Brown's, Kerr's & Halliburton's
Where Oklahoma City Loved to Shop
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Department stores John A. Brown's, Kerr's and Halliburton's ruled supreme in Oklahoma City. From "lucky penny" giveaways to defying blue laws, the three big department stores did whatever it took to entertain and entice. The stunning display windows of Kerr's downtown once lured shoppers inside, but...
Building a Housewife's Paradise
Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Supermarkets are a mundane feature in the landscape, but as Tracey Deutsch reveals, they represent a major transformation in the ways that Americans feed themselves. In her examination of the history of food distribution in the United States, Deutsch demonstrates the important roles that gender, business,...
Retailisation
The Here, There and Everywhere of Retail
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Investigates the current state of selling, whether this is groceries, politicians, information or motorcars. Unlike any other phenomenon, retailization reflects the complexity and diffusion of information processes and the media in the online market. The authors explore the all-pervasive nature of...
Jewel of Knightsbridge
The Origins of the Harrods Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In 1836, Charles Harrod found himself in a prison hulk awaiting transportation to Tasmania for seven years' hard labor. He had been convicted of receiving stolen goods, and this should have been the beginning of the end for his fledgling business. And yet, in miraculously escaping his fate and vowing...
by Bernard W. Aubuchon Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2008
William E. Aubuchon Sr. immigrated to the United States from Canada in 1900 at the age of 15, speaking no English and armed with only a fifth-grade education. Through hard work and perseverance, he established a hardware store in 1908 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. One hundred years later, there are over...
More Than a Hobby
How a $600 Startup Became America's Home and Craft Superstore
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
More than a Hobby takes readers inside the mind of a low-key, likable Oklahoma entrepreneur who has created a unique shopping experience. How did his company go from a $600 loan to $1.3 billion in annual sales in just thirty-one years-especially when he wasn't groomed for this work either by heritage...
by Mark A. Barnhouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Over the course of eleven decades, The Denver Dry Goods and its predecessor, McNamara Dry Goods, proudly served Coloradoans, who knew they could "shop with confidence" for the best quality at the fairest prices. Much more than the goods it sold, the store was a major institution that touched the lives...
Retail’s Last Mile
Why Online Shopping Will Exceed Our Wildest Predictions
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
The disruption of store retail by online shopping has only just begun. Few retailers are ready for the changes ahead. Some customers shop in stores because they love to, but mostly they do it because there is no convenient alternative. This is changing. Technology which enables customers to make smart...
Something for Everyone
Memories of Lauerman Brothers Department Store
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
In 1890 the Lauerman brothers opened a general store in the lumber-boom town of Marinette, Wisconsin. The business prospered, and soon the brothers abandoned their small quarters on Main Street for a magnificent department store on Dunlap Square in the heart of Marinette. Thanks to the Lauermans’...
by Gerald E. Naftaly
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
When the Northland Mall opened in Michigan on March 22, 1954, it was the world's largest shopping center. Its innovative design was the vision of architect Victor Gruen and the Webbers, nephews of Joseph Lowthian Hudson and executives of the J.L. Hudson Company. Northland featured Hudson's flagship...
India's Store Wars
Retail Revolution and the Battle for the Next 500 Million Shoppers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
As India's middle class grows and disposable incomes rise, "modern" retail is becoming the next hot sector of the Indian economy. Hundreds of millions of new consumers will join this retail revolution, venturing into supermarkets, department stores and air-conditioned shopping malls for...
by V. RAJESH
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Retail in India, especially the modern self service chains has been at the centre of several press and magazine articles. Vigorous debates about FDI, Corporate Chains and the Conventional stores abound in many a forum. However, in spite of all this hype there are very few books, if any at all that examine...